Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in an age of sexual laxity, the marquis was often in prison for sexual offenses. In a frolic in Marseille, four prostitutes took turns flailing De Sade with a twig broom (they had refused to use his favorite whip studded with nails). Then De Sade fed a girl candies which she claimed were poisoned, but which De Sade insisted were only aphrodisiacs. The girl became so ill she went to the police. De Sade, who skipped town in the nick of time, was condemned to death in absentia and burned in effigy. When he ran off with his wife...
While Saud spent weeks convalescing in Paris and on the Riviera, Prince Feisal was using a new broom at home. He fired all of Saud's sons and aides who held government posts, and cut royal family allowances a whopping 20%. In a series of speeches, Feisal told wide-eyed citizens: "With God's help, you and your government are going the right way. Education, medical care and social security are all completely free...
Going Dutch with a tiny admirer, Governor George Romney, 55, enjoyed himself at the annual Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan. Before the day ended, Romney was out there in costume scrubbing the streets-and his demonstration that a new broom sweeps clean must have pleased Republicans who see the Governor as presidential timber for 1964. Soon to come on Romney's busy schedule is a speechmaking date in Washington at the National Press Club, a favorite proving ground for potential candidates...
...American hypocrisy: "The truth is that the people are living in an intellectual broom closet. In New York, you can't ask a man to go to bed with you, but if he offers you fifty dollars you're allowed...
...Heart of my heart," crooned Massachusetts' junior Senator from the middle of the dance floor. "Alouette," he began, jabbing the air with his forefinger like a President, to get everyone singing in the proper sequence. Someone struck up a limbo, and Teddy craned backward under a broom with the best of them. With or without benefit of Kennedys, it was like that in the bars all over town-conviviality rather than disorder, the young mingling easily with their elders and betters...